DHI-NTU Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Waste Manag. 2010 May;30(5):921-33. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.11.017.
A comparative analysis of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in Singapore and Berlin was carried out in order to identify its current status, and highlight the prevailing conditions of MSWM. An overview of the various aspects of MSWM in these two cities is provided, with emphasis on comparing the legal, technical, and managerial aspects of MSW. Collection systems and recycling practiced with respect to the involvement of the government and the private sector, are also presented. Over last two decades, the city of Berlin has made impressive progress with respect to its waste management. The amounts of waste have declined significantly, and at the same time the proportion that could be recovered and recycled has increased. In contrast, although Singapore's recycling rate has been increasing over the past few years, rapid economic and population growth as well as change in consumption patterns in this city-state has caused waste generation to continue to increase. Landfilling of MSW plays minor role in both cities, one due to geography (Singapore) and the other due to legislative prohibition (Berlin). Consequently, both in Singapore and Berlin, waste is increasingly being used as a valuable resource and great efforts have been made for the development of incineration technology and energy recovery, as well as climate protection.
对新加坡和柏林的城市固体废物管理（MSWM）进行了比较分析，以确定其现状，并强调 MSWM 的普遍状况。提供了这两个城市在各个方面的 MSWM 的概述，重点比较了 MSW 的法律、技术和管理方面。还介绍了关于政府和私营部门参与的收集系统和回收实践。在过去的二十年中，柏林在其废物管理方面取得了令人瞩目的进展。废物量显著减少，同时可回收和可回收的比例也有所增加。相比之下，尽管新加坡的回收利用率在过去几年中一直在增加，但这个城市国家的经济和人口的快速增长以及消费模式的变化导致废物产生持续增加。在这两个城市中，垃圾填埋都只占很小的比例，一个是因为地理原因（新加坡），另一个是因为立法禁止（柏林）。因此，新加坡和柏林都越来越将废物视为一种有价值的资源，并为焚烧技术和能源回收以及气候保护的发展做出了巨大努力。
